The Uttarakhand government today said there are over six lakh people registered with employment exchanges in the state and many of them are professionally trained.

"As many as 6,66,677 people are registered till March with employment centres in different districts of Uttarakhand," state employment minister Harish Chandra Durgapal told the state Assembly in response to a question by BJP leader Chandan Ramdas.

The state government has decided to give unemployment allowance to educated youths, he said.